El Mormonismo y la naturaleza de Dios/Madre Celestial

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Creencia mormona en una divina divina "Madre Celestial"

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• Gospel Topics: "Our theology begins with heavenly parents. Our highest aspiration is to be like them"
• Pregunta: ¿Los Santos de los Últimos Días creen en una persona divina femenina, una "Madre Celestial" como contraparte de Dios, el Padre Celestial?
• Pregunta: ¿Se nos permite orar a nuestra "Madre Celestial"?
• Pregunta: ¿Es cierto que se sabe poco sobre nuestra Madre Celestial porque está "protegida"?

  NEEDS TRANSLATION  

Pregunta: ¿Los Santos de los Últimos Días creen en una persona divina femenina, una "Madre Celestial" como contraparte de Dios, el Padre Celestial?

  NEEDS TRANSLATION  

Latter-day Saints infer the existence of a Heavenly Mother through scripture and modern revelation

Because LDS theology rejects the doctrine of creation out of nothing (creatio ex nihilo) as a post-Biblical addition to Christian belief, and because they see God as embodied in human form while rejecting creedal Trinitarianism, having a female counterpart to Our Heavenly Father seems logical and almost inevitable. This is especially true given the LDS embrace of the doctrine of theosis, or human deification. Thus, the Heavenly Mother shares parenthood with the Father, and shares His attributes of perfection, holiness, and glory.

There is evidence for this doctrine in ancient Israel, and within the Book of Mormon.

As early as 1839, Joseph Smith taught the idea of a Heavenly Mother. Eliza R. Snow composed a poem (later set to music) which provides the most well-known expression of this doctrine:

In the heav´ns are parents single?
No, the thought makes reason stare!
Truth is reason; truth eternal
Tells me I´ve a mother there.
When I leave this frail existence,
When I lay this mortal by,
Father, Mother, may I meet you
In your royal courts on high?

In 1909 the First Presidency, under Joseph F. Smith, wrote that

man, as a spirit, was begotten and born of heavenly parents, and reared to maturity in the eternal mansions of the Father [as an] offspring of celestial parentage...all men and women are in the similitude of the universal Father and Mother, and are literally the sons and daughters of Deity....

The 1995 statement issued by the First Presidency and the Council of the Twelve Apostles, entitled The Family: A Proclamation to the World, states that all men and women are children of heavenly parents (plural), which implies the existence of a Mother in Heaven.

All human beings—male and female—are created in the image of God. Each is a beloved spirit son or daughter of heavenly parents, and, as such, each has a divine nature and destiny.

Pregunta: ¿Es cierto que se sabe poco sobre nuestra Madre Celestial porque está "protegida"?

  NEEDS TRANSLATION  

This idea is simply speculation, and has no basis in scripture or Latter-day Saint doctrine

In trying to fathom why there are only scant and vague references to a Heavenly Mother in LDS theology, Church members who might have had good intentions but no inspiration or authority to speak on the matter have arrived at false conclusions. Perhaps the most common bad explanation for our lack of information on Heavenly Mother is the idea that she is being "protected" by our Heavenly Father from the blasphemy he and the Son endure. This is an old-fashioned bit of folk-wisdom steeped in the benevolent sexism of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It's a misapplication of the "courtly love" and romantic notions that were once important in Western literature, manners, and sexual politics. These kinds of protective ideals were well-rooted in Western culture centuries before the Church was restored.

We have found no evidence of a Church leader, male or female, talking about Heavenly Mother being "protected" by her own obscurity in LDS doctrine. Though this was once a widely spread idea it appears to be little more than speculative folk-wisdom unsupported by prophetic revelation.

If, as President Hinckley states, a prayer to Heavenly Mother cannot "add to or diminish her glory" then certainly blaspheming against her cannot harm her either. She needs no protection from us.

Google translated; no human check yet.

Temas del Evangelio en LDS.org, "Llegar a ser como Dios"

Temas del Evangelio en LDS.org, (25 de febrero 2014)

Eliza R. Snow, un líder de la Iglesia y poeta, se regocijaba por la doctrina de que somos, en un sentido pleno y absoluto, hijos de Dios. "Yo había aprendido a llamarte Padre, / Thru tu Espíritu de lo alto", escribió, "Pero, hasta que la llave de la ciencia / ¿Se ha restaurado, yo no sabía por qué." Santos de los Últimos Días también se han movido por el conocimiento que su filiación divina incluye una Madre Celestial, así como a un Padre Celestial. Expresando que la verdad, preguntó Eliza R. Snow, "En los cielos padres solos?" Y respondió con un rotundo no: "La verdad eterna / me dice que he una madre allí." 45 Ese conocimiento juega un papel importante en miembro de la Iglesia de creencias. Como escribió Elder Dallin H. Oaks, del Quórum de los Doce Apóstoles, "Nuestra teología comienza con padres celestiales. Nuestra máxima aspiración es llegar a ser como ellos ".